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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/27
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Larry said

<<Experience on Alpha seem relevant to me since there is a larger
selection of operating systems available.  I have not seen these
issues with DEC Unix or VMS, and to me that indicates that the
information is available on Alpha via probing the hardware. I
have not used Linux on Alpha, but I know the port has had strong
assistance from folks at DEC so there should be no issue of some
inside secrets which are unavailable to the developers.
>>

The point is that the Linux port to Alpha is far less well developed
and far less well supported, so far, than the PC port. Of course it
has less to contend with in the way of weird hardware, but nevertheless,
given that we are talking ease of installation here, I think the
ease of installation of the Alpha version says nothing at all about
the ease of installation of the PC version